Engine Efficiency

Posted by gmharris [72.219.148.98] on Thursday, July 03, 2014 at 21:20:28 :

An earlier post got me to thinking about engine efficiency.

The first commercial steam engine had an efficiency of about one percent. Later steam engines got up to about 40 percent, roughly the same efficiency as a diesel engine.

Follow Ups:

• Sounds about right - Sherman in Idaho 21:54:27 07/03/2014
  • Re: Sounds about right - Todd in Kansas 22:27:05 07/03/2014
    • steam donkey - derek 00:13:23 07/04/2014
      • Re: steam donkey - Chris Olson 14:48:01 07/04/2014
      • Re: steam donkey - Glen of Idaho 00:44:07 07/04/2014
        • Re: steam donkey - derek 01:22:48 07/04/2014
      • Definition to go with picture - gmharris 00:23:32 07/04/2014
        • Road work - Sherman in Idaho 02:47:58 07/04/2014
        • A small donkey - Sherman in Idaho 02:36:30 07/04/2014
          • Another view - Sherman in Idaho 02:43:28 07/04/2014
            • Oops, try again - Sherman in Idaho 02:51:44 07/04/2014
              • Slow Work. ntx - gmharris 12:00:01 07/04/2014
        • A big donkey - Sherman in Idaho 02:34:48 07/04/2014
          • Re: A big donkey - Kaegi 11:22:36 07/04/2014
  • Like I Said, "You Win" - gmharris 22:18:12 07/03/2014
• Aw Jeez Edith! Here we go again. ;-) Ntxt - Bob Thompson 21:36:15 07/03/2014
  • Drink Deeply from the Font of Knowledge ;) - gmharris 21:46:37 07/03/2014

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